“Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material, controlling and controlled, reflective and spontaneous. Thus instead of suffering we suffer about suffering, and suffer about suffering about suffering.”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“I’m afraid I’m like a dipsomaniac with a bottle. They keep sending me these catalogs and I can’t resist them.”— William Randolph Hearst, amazon.com
“I resent the idea that the Irish are all violent drunks. We’re perfectly capable of violence when sober, thank you very much.”— deepthaw, reddit.com
“There’s too many things I enjoy doing and I don’t want to wake up feeling hungover.”— Joaquin Phoenix, nytimes.com
“For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“I generally define moderate alcohol intake as a 5-ounce glass of wine, a 12-ounce beer or 1 ounce of hard liquor, with a meal, per day.”— Joseph Mercola, articles.mercola.com
“When I go to bed and I've had so much alcohol: I'm a lost soul. I'm the compromised, I'm a dumb fool.”— The Jezabels, open.spotify.com
“My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spiritous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health.”— Robert E. Lee, amazon.com
“The agave plant does have culinary uses, and is best known for mescal and tequila, which is made from the fermented pulp. However, the exotic desert plant needs careful preparation to avoid any significant side-effects.”— Dave Maclean, independent.co.uk
“It had struck me a long time back that the dream of letting go into water is prevalent in the work of alcoholic writers. I'd been collecting them up, these little fantasies of cleanliness, purification, dissolution and death. Some were healthful: antidotes to a kind of felt dirtiness gathering elsew…”— Olivia Laing, amazon.com
“I sense in some small part of myself how pleasurable it might be to let alcohol unhinge you, to take you down into an unreachable, sunken place, where sounds are very muted.”— Olivia Laing, amazon.com
“As he inflates his imagination, he inflates his capacity for anxiety, and inevitably becomes the victim of crushing phobias that can only be allayed by crushing doses of heroin or alcohol.”— John Cheever, amazon.com
“Alcohol really blurs the line between I LOVE THIS SONG! and I know of this song.”— Christopher Hudspeth, twitter.com
“Different alcohols have different effects on the skin, but as a general rule, the clearer, the better: Vodka, gin, and tequila get out of your system quicker. If you’re going to drink anything, in my opinion, drink vodka that doesn’t have a grain in it, like a potato vodka. It’s a lot clearer and sm…”— Jairo Rodriguez, vogue.com
“If you look at a woman who has been drinking for 20 or 30 years, and a woman the same age who hasn’t at all, we see a massive difference in the skin—more wrinkles from that dehydration damage, which can make you look 10 years older.”— Jairo Rodriguez, vogue.com
“Drinking one glass of wine can put you at ease and increase your interest in becoming intimate. But too much alcohol can ruin your ability to perform.”— Alexia Severson, healthline.com
“Vodka martini sounds wonderful. One for me too, please. With a syringe, if you would.”— Victor Levin, Brian Bloom, Anton Yelchin, amazon.com